Come on out, River. The nice man wants to kidnap you.

Simon ,'Objects In Space'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Steph L. - Apr 06, 2024 6:44:48 pm PDT #29620 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

I have booked plane tickets to SF for the memorial! Next: hotel.


Steph L. - Apr 06, 2024 8:44:00 pm PDT #29621 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

And hotel booked! Yay!

The rest of the weekend’s less-fun tasks are doing our taxes and sorting out Dad’s medications.


P.M. Marc - Apr 07, 2024 1:08:25 am PDT #29622 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

It's also Alex's birthday--he's 20 today, which is making me feel all the usual cliches about time going by too fast, etc. We're taking him out for lunch at a conveyor belt sushi place to celebrate.

Is that the one by the movie theatre? (TWENTY?????? I mean, Squeak's nineteen in a week. So.)


P.M. Marc - Apr 07, 2024 1:13:30 am PDT #29623 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Bran Flakes (on account of we're old):

Because this is one place where said child is never going to see it, she is getting a comical amount of, err, lesbian flag-themed birthday gifts. I might've gone a touch overboard, but she's trying to be somewhat more blatant about it. I mean, it's not all she's getting, but it's certainly a theme. (I've taken to calling her current core hangout group The Gay Agenda.)


meara - Apr 07, 2024 3:37:06 am PDT #29624 of 30000

Aww that’s adorable, Plei.

I cannot believe it is 330 and I am awake and just got home! No real shenanigans but was DJing until almost 1am and then hanging out with folks at the after party. This morning was rough…tomorrow (today?) morning is probably going to be worse. Oops.


Calli - Apr 07, 2024 5:25:12 am PDT #29625 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Yesterday I got a haircut and then went straight to an outdoor wine tasting with some friends. It was a glorious spring day—sunny and cool. Because it was cool I probably stayed in the sun longer than I should have, but only got a little pink. Then I came home and potted up 15 jade plants from the one that fell down and became a jade plant nursery a few years ago. I’ve already given away 9 to friends and coworkers. 14 will be going out for members of the local Buy Nothing group to nab, and I’ll keep one.


-t - Apr 07, 2024 6:55:29 am PDT #29626 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Train has not moved in about 12 hours and probably at least 3 more before we can. So this is not going according to plan. Winter Park, CO is very pretty in the snow, though


Laura - Apr 07, 2024 7:06:07 am PDT #29627 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

What is the train like? I'd love to go on a train excursion.


Laura - Apr 07, 2024 7:08:28 am PDT #29628 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

My sister and other family (and my summer home) is in the path so it has been madness up there. They are predicting that many people will just have to view on the backed up routes. It is only a two lane road where they are. Big festivities planned in town, but Mona thinks she will just stay in Otter Lake because of the traffic issue.

eta: Otter Lake, NY 2m 32.9s per the website stuff


-t - Apr 07, 2024 7:22:27 am PDT #29629 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

The train is nice - we’re in coach, which is more comfortable than a plane and you can wander up to the “lounge car” and have meals in the dining car and get off take a quick break from being on the train at some of the stops. Not the most comfortable sleeping, but not too bad. The scenery has been pretty spectacular whether we were looking out our window from our own seats or the observation car and the people we have been sitting near or were seated with for meals have been nice